Environmental Protest In the UK
Climate Camp Swoop on Ratcliffe Power Station
NOTTINGHAM, UK – 17.10.09. Hundreds of climate camp activists rushed the perimeter fences of Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station with the aim to shut it down. Scuffles flared as hundreds of protesters used bolt cutters and ropes to pull down sections of the electrified fence. During the skirmishes one policeman was airlifted to hospital due to heat exhaustion but later released. Over 50 people where arrested for a variety of offenses, including aggravated trespass and criminal damage. The 2,000mw coal-fired power station is owned by the energy company E.ON and said to be one of the largest producers of carbon dioxide in Britain.
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Bio Fuel Rush
UK, London – 01.07.09. The Climate Rush held a Gala Dinner and Dance outside the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair to protest against the deforestation of tropical forests to grow biofuel crops. The hotel was hosting a gala dinner for delegates at the World Agri Invest Congress, where business leaders and investors met growers and buyers in agriculture.
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Peruvian Embassy Protest
UK, London – 19.06.09. Climate change activists blocked the entrance to the Peruvian Embassy in protest the country’s recent human rights violations against indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest.
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Bike Rush
UK, London – 01.06.09. Over 300 cyclists set off from Chatham House in St James Square and biked thought central London. Protesters dressed as suffragettes denounced the UK corporations responsible for climate change..They rode past the offices of BAA and E-ON, then on to Parliament square. It ended with a blockade of Westminster bridge. There protesters held a picnic, and stopped traffic for over an hour.
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Art Not Oil
UK, London – 06.05.08. Art Not Oil Picketed the BP “100 years of business party” which took place in the British Museum, London. Protesters dressed as mourners and zombies blocked guests cars as they tried to enter the museum courtyard.
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No New Coal
UK, London – 30.04.09. Environmental campaigners demonstrates outside of Downing St calling for Kingsnorth coal power station not to be rebuilt and for the UK government to invest in green energy.
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Climate Rush on Royal bank of Scotland
UK, London – 05.03.09.Climate rush demonstrated outside of the national headquarters of the Royal bank of Scotland. Protesters engage in street theater, and denounce RBS handling of the global economic crisis.
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Climate Rush Cocktail Party
UK, London – 26.02.09. Climate Rush hosted cocktail party for the coal industry outside the Landmark Hotel on Marylebone Road, London. Coal UK presented celebratory awards to the most successful companies in the coal industry. Climate Rush offered an alternative awards based on the ecological damage that the coal industry is inflicting on the environment.